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Jessica Silver-Greenberg

Jessica Silver-Greenberg is a reporter at The New York Times who writes about finance and its impact on consumers, from retirees in Orlando to fast food employees in Philadelphia to renters in the Bronx. More

Jessica Silver-Greenberg is a reporter at The New York Times who writes about finance and its impact on consumers, from retirees in Orlando to fast food employees in Philadelphia to renters in the Bronx.

In 2015, she was part of a team of reporters that revealed how big banks and corporations have forced tens of millions of Americans to give up their day in court and instead submit to a private system in which there is no judge and no jury.

She has also investigated how older Americans are being pushed into debt at impossible interest rates by the very professionals they entrust with their well-being: doctors and dentists. And she has written about how auto lenders take advantage of poor people who desperately need cars to get to work.

Before joining The Times in 2012, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal where she wrote about debt buyers and debt collectors. And before that, she was a reporter at Businessweek where she wrote about something she knew well: recent college graduates with all kinds of debt.

She has an English degree from Princeton University. When she was a kid, she aspired to be Harriet the Spy.

She was born in New York City, grew up in Los Angeles and came back to the East Coast where apartments are smaller, but bookshelves are bigger. Behind all her work is the memory of Yaya, her card-playing, fast-talking grandma, who never forgot a birthday and taught her how to be a sleuth.